We’re excited to introduce MSP360 Managed Backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace 4.0 with Object Lock (Immutability) for AWS, Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Backblaze B2, SharePoint site restore, support for Organizational Units for Google Workspace, Google Mail backup API improvements, Mail Backup and Archive options improvements, and more. Continue reading
How to Start Using MSP360 Backup with Microsoft Azure
This post explains how to sign up for Microsoft Azure account and configure MSP360 Backup to be used with Microsoft Azure.
MSP360 Drive maps Cloud Storage as a Local Disk
MSP360 Drive is a product that allows to easily map cloud storage as a local disk and access cloud data directly from the Windows Explorer interface. In the full version, MSP360 Drive lets users run both read and write operations to storage accounts just like to any other disks in the system.
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How to Configure CloudBerry Backup to Sync to the Root of Bucket
CloudBerry Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 and over 15 other storages.
One of the questions we repeatedly get from our customers is "How do I configure Backup Server Edition to Sync/Backup a select directory to the ROOT of a bucket?" Continue reading
Controlling Storage Costs With MSP360 Backup
MSP360 S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
In the latest release we are introducing an option to estimate cloud storage costs. You can set up cost estimates per the storage account on the account configuration dialog. You can also setup the limit in GB and in $ that when reached will stop the backup. The software will automatically calculate the costs based on the current storage price offered by the storage provider. Currently Amazon S3 charge 0.125/GB per month. The software will also send an alert to the users when the storage is about to reach the limit.
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Report on Backup Status to Windows Event Log with CloudBerry Backup
CloudBerrry Backup comes with an option to write Events on backup completion (success and failure) to the Windows Event log. This feature makes it easier to deploy MSP360 Backup along with the popular monitoring and management systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, Quest Foglight and a few others that come with a capability to process Windows Event Log and apply certain common rules. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup: Store Backup Plan Configuration on the Cloud
MSP360 Explorer: Import/Export Program Settings
As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3, CloudFront, and IAM client on Windows platform.
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How to Restore Only Newer Files With MSP360 Backup
MSP360 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restoration processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
Sometimes you may want to restore the newer version of the file on the target computer over the existing (Older) version. This is particularly important in the Sync scenario, where you want to have your target folder look exactly as the source. In the previous version of MSP360 Backup, that would not be possible and you could just force overwrite every file in regardless of the modification date. This would cause a lot of unnecessary restore operations.
In the newer release, we have added the Restore only new files option so that only the files with newer modification date could be restored. This option is available on the Restore Wizard, Destination step. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup Web Access Updated
We have been running MSP360 Backup Web Access for quite some time and it has become a fairly popular way to access backup storage from all over the places where you don't have access to the local backup client. We have recently updated the Web Access to make it cleaner and easier to use.
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MSP360 Backup: Introducing Block-Level Backup for Files of Any Size
Please note that this article has been archived.You might want to check out our newer article about block-level backup.
Security Assessment in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3
Just a few days ago Amazon S3 team sent an email to many of their customers warning them about the bucket settings with the following subject: "Important Security Notification regarding your Amazon S3 bucket settings." The email was sent to the users with the buckets configured in such as way that allows changing bucket contents by anonymous users causing potential data loss. Continue reading